Charles Marsh's Speaking Schedule
See a list of Marsh's speaking engagements. For more information about any of the events listed, contact the sponsoring institution or email livedtheology@virginia.edu
Upcoming Event: 2008 Capps Lecture
Dr. Donald Shriver, Jr. will deliver the 2008 Capps Lecture on October 15 in the Rotunda of the University of Virginia. Dr. Shriver is president emeritus of Union Theological Seminary and a pastor, professor, writer, and speaker engaged in the issue of social justice.
Announcing: Forthcoming publication by Susan Holman
Virginia Seminar member Susan Holman recently had her new book proposal accepted by Oxford University Press. The book will be titled God Knows There's Need: Christian Responses to Poverty and should appear sometime in 2009. It explores issues of need in ourselves and others and weaves together stories about Christian responses to poverty in late antiquity with narrative reflections on how they may inform how we think about similar issues today.
New book by Alan Jacobs: Original Sin: A Cultural History (Harper Collins, April 2008)
Essayist and biographer Alan Jacobs introduces us to the world of original sin, which he describes as not only a profound idea but a necessary one. As G. K. Chesterton explains, "Only with original sin can we at once pity the beggar and distrust the king." In Original Sin, Alan Jacobs takes readers on a sweeping tour of the idea of original sin, its origins, its history, and its proponents and opponents. And he leaves us better prepared to answer one of the most important questions of all: Are we really, all of us, bad to the bone? (description from Harper Collins online)
Read about Jacobs's work with the Virginia Seminar in Lived Theology.
New book by Willis Jenkins: Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology (Oxford University Press, Jan. 2008)
Christianity struggles to show how living on earth matters for living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical ways to respond to the environmental crisis, theology has had difficulty contextualizing the crisis and interpreting the responses.
In Ecologies of Grace, Willis Jenkins presents a field-shaping introduction to Christian environmental ethics that offers resources for renewing theology. Observing how religious environmental practices often draw on concepts of grace, Jenkins maps the way Christian environmental strategies draw from traditions of salvation as they engage the problems of environmental ethics. He then uses this new map to explore afresh the ecological dimensions of Christian theology. (description from OUP online)